Adult Malnutrition Documentation Improvement: Team Collaboration for Clinical Impact in the Hospital Setting

This presentation focuses on identifying tactics and best practices to support medical coding workflow and interprofessional communications to improve adult malnutrition documentation, diagnosis, and care integration for at-risk adult patient populations in the hospital setting. Specific examples of recovery auditors’ rejections or denials are provided and ways to strengthen stronger documentation of malnutrition.
Presented by Terese Scollard MBA RDN LD FAND

1. Identify tactics that support medical coding workflow in acute care to improve documentation of protein-calorie malnutrition
2. Review relationships between the ASPEN/Academy Consensus Characteristics of Adult Protein-Calorie Malnutrition and the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition
3. Propose opportunities for team collaboration to support clinical validation of the diagnosis of protein-calorie malnutrition.
4. Recognize malnutrition informatics as an avenue to support interprofessional communications and care integration for at-risk adult patient populations

Original Program Date: April 15, 2021; Expiration date: April 14, 2024 Continuing Education: 1.5 CE for Nurses; 1.5 CPEU for Registered Dietitians/Registered Dietetic Technicians - CDR level: II

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